Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ Noise Ordinances: Barking Dogs (2026)

Two provisions of the Township Code set the same barking threshold. Section 91-8D, headed Disturbing the peace, bars any person from owning, keeping, harboring or maintaining any dog which habitually barks or cries continually for 10 minutes or intermittently for 30 minutes unless provoked. It sits in Chapter 91, Article I, where the Animal Control Officer appointed by the Mayor enforces it (§ 91-12). The dog license application also asks whether the dog has been surgically debarked or silenced (§ 91-2B(1)(d)). Chapter 258, the Noise chapter adopted by Ord.

No. 98:30, reaches the same problem. Section 258-5C says that, notwithstanding the sound level limits in Tables I and II, specific standards apply to listed sources, and item (9) prohibits owning, possessing or harboring any pet animal that frequently or for continued duration makes sounds that create a noise disturbance across a residential real property line. It defines a noise disturbance from a pet animal as noise made continually for 10 minutes or intermittently for 30 minutes unless provoked, and it states that the limits set forth at Tables I and II do not apply to that source.

Section 91-8D contains no property-line qualifier, while the noise chapter provision is written around sound crossing a residential real property line. Under § 258-6A a violation of the Noise chapter brings an enforcement document issued by the noise control officer according to N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.6, and the recipient is entitled to a hearing in Municipal Court to contest it.